# Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' 100 metre freestyle

The boys' 100 metre freestyle event in swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics took place on 21–22 August at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre in Nanjing, China.

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:12.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 3 | Matheus Santana | Brazil | 50.15 | Q |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Yu Hexin | China | 50.15 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 3 | Alessandro Bori | Italy | 50.35 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 6 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 50.40 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | Filipp Shopin | Russia | 50.44 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 5 | Kyle Stolk | Netherlands | 50.52 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 6 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 50.60 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | Jan Hołub | Poland | 50.61 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 4 | Damian Wierling | Germany | 50.65 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 7 | Povilas Strazdas | Lithuania | 50.69 | Q |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 50.73 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 3 | Nicolangelo Di Fabio | Italy | 50.83 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 5 | Matthew Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 50.87 | Q, NR |
| 14 | 3 | 8 | Robert Glință | Romania | 50.98 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 2 | Alexis Borisavljevic | Belgium | 51.38 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 1 | Miles Munro | Great Britain | 51.40 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | 1 | Guido Buscaglia | Argentina | 51.48 | |
| 18 | 5 | 7 | Jānis Šaltāns | Latvia | 51.57 | |
| 19 | 4 | 1 | Lim Ching Hwang | Malaysia | 51.64 | |
| 20 | 2 | 2 | Khader Baqlah | Jordan | 51.73 | |
| 21 | 2 | 4 | Uroš Nikolić | Serbia | 51.75 | |
| 22 | 5 | 6 | Juan Marín | Spain | 51.79 | |
| 23 | 2 | 7 | Chad Idensohn | Zimbabwe | 51.93 | |
| 24 | 5 | 8 | Isak Eliasson | Sweden | 51.96 | |
| 25 | 3 | 7 | Marek Ulrich | Germany | 52.01 | |
| 26 | 3 | 2 | Fotios Mylonas | Greece | 52.03 | |
| 27 | 4 | 6 | Joshua Steyn | South Africa | 52.19 | |
| 28 | 1 | 5 | Patrick Conaton | United States | 52.49 | |
| 29 | 1 | 3 | Calum Bain | Ireland | 52.51 | |
| 30 | 2 | 3 | Zuhayr Pigot | Suriname | 52.70 | |
| 31 | 2 | 1 | Artyom Pukhnatiy | Uzbekistan | 52.78 | |
| 32 | 2 | 8 | Vahan Mkhitaryan | Armenia | 53.20 | |
| 33 | 1 | 4 | Raoul Stafrace | Malta | 53.45 | |
| 34 | 1 | 6 | Jesse Washington | Bermuda | 53.89 | |
| 35 | 1 | 2 | Noah Mascoll-Gomes | Antigua and Barbuda | 55.22 | |
| 36 | 1 | 1 | Hannibal Gaskin | Guyana | 58.03 | |
| 37 | 1 | 7 | Collin Akara | Papua New Guinea | 58.45 | |
| | 4 | 5 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | DNS | |
| | 4 | 8 | Darren Fang Yue Lim | Singapore | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:19.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | 4 | Matheus Santana | Brazil | 49.30 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | Kyle Stolk | Netherlands | 49.78 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | Alessandro Bori | Italy | 49.91 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 50.15 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 4 | Yu Hexin | China | 50.26 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 50.33 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 6 | Jan Hołub | Poland | 50.41 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | Damian Wierling | Germany | 50.42 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 3 | Filipp Shopin | Russia | 50.58 | |
| 10 | 1 | 7 | Nicolangelo Di Fabio | Italy | 50.64 | |
| 11 | 1 | 2 | Povilas Strazdas | Lithuania | 50.66 | |
| 11 | 1 | 1 | Robert Glință | Romania | 50.66 | |
| 13 | 2 | 1 | Matthew Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 50.86 | NR |
| 14 | 1 | 8 | Miles Munro | Great Britain | 50.87 | |
| 15 | 2 | 7 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 50.92 | |
| 16 | 2 | 8 | Alexis Borisavljevic | Belgium | 51.54 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:20.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Matheus Santana | Brazil | 48.25 | WJR |
| | 2 | Yu Hexin | China | 49.06 | |
| | 8 | Damian Wierling | Germany | 49.07 | |
| 4 | 3 | Alessandro Bori | Italy | 49.65 | |
| 5 | 5 | Kyle Stolk | Netherlands | 49.83 | |
| 6 | 7 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 49.96 | |
| 7 | 1 | Jan Hołub | Poland | 50.01 | |
| 8 | 6 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 50.29 | |